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Science and Religion: Revealing the Divine

Series:

Love Matters

Week:

3

Love Matters are wisdom words from Fr. Thomas Keating spoken during the filming of the new series God is Love: The Heart of All Creation. Some are included in the series; others are from footage published here for the first time. A new word will be posted every Monday throughout the year. May they serve to inspire hope and lift your heart.

If our knowledge of God is severely limited by the human lack of evolution in our rational faculties then this would be wonderful news if it can be expanded now on the basis of facts. So in this sense I think we have to look upon science now as an equal voice in religious discussion because it’s revealing to us things we can’t know with our ordinary senses that can only be revealed through the technological extension to all the senses that modern science has made possible.

The problem of science, of course, is that it doesn’t deal with the absolutes. It’s not designed to deal with invisible forces and it’s only beginning to put its big toe, so to speak, into the great ocean of mystical wisdom and experience that can no longer be denied anymore and still maintain our respectable scientific identity.